Literary usage of Especially

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1.Thucydides Translated Into English by Benjamin Jowett, Thucydides (1881)"VII. them when they retired, falling especially upon the BC413. hindermost of
... And then, as constantly happens in armies*, especially in very great ones, ..."

2.The Book of the Courtier by Baldassarre Castiglione (1903)"He will never be among the last to show themselves, knowing that the crowd and
especially women gaze much more attentively upon the first than upon the last ..."